Moonsaics
This collection of five Moonsaics have been created by the National Schools' Observatory, they consist of five different images of the Moon, separated into multiple picture panels per image, much like a "giant jigsaw puzzle". Students are challenged to assemble the completed images, offering them the opportunity to…
Sexual Selection: the Dating Game
This ARKive game teaches students the main principles of sexual selection and the difference between intrasexual and intersexual selection. Using species from ARKive as examples, students discover why some animals have ornaments to attract mates (intersexual selection) while others have weapons to fight for mates (intrasexual selection).
Fun-Size
These Fun-Size activities, from the Association for Science Education (ASE), are short 5-15 minute tasks that enliven lessons. This resource is part of the SYCD Can we; Should we? collection. The activities range from short games and word plays through to quick demonstrations. Fun-size is particularly useful when you are working…
Top Science
This resource from the Association for Science Education (ASE) consists of a set of cards illustrating different careers showing the importance of science to each one. This resource is part of the SYCD: Science Year AKA Science collection. The resource provides students with information such as a simple job description, qualifications…
Domino Sorting
This NRICH maths activity focuses on the importance of odds and evens. It will help learners become more familiar with odd and even numbers, and number bonds to five. Children will have to use their skills of sorting and classifying to produce results which will lead them to making hypotheses and challenging them to justify findings.
Top Science
This resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE), uses a familiar card game format to teach facts about marine animals. The game is part of the SYCD: Science Year Can we; Should we? collection. The resource consists of thirty-six colour cards, including a 'Categories' card to explain the information given…
Guess Zoo
Guess Zoo is fun animal guessing game, produced by ARKive, that can be used to introduce or support several lesson themes, for example species diversity, adaptations, habitats and classification. Using a set of species cards, students have to work out what the animal on a card is by asking each other questions about it's…
Carbon Footprints and the Greenhouse Effect
In this SATIS Revisited resource students consider the factors that contribute to the greenhouse effect, the possible effects of global warming, and how they as individuals are contributing to carbon dioxide emissions. Climate change is affecting the natural world. The distribution of some species appears to be changing and so…
Top Science
This resource, provided by the Association for Science Education (ASE) and part of the SYCD Who am I? collection, uses a familiar card game format to illustrate cell, tissue and organ associations. It also highlights all the adaptations and functions of specialised cells required at Key Stage Three. The resource consists of 30 colour…
Introduction
This Nuffield Foundation resource opens with a team game that demonstrates the need for careful planning and collaboration. Students use their findings to construct a standard operating procedure that enables them to improve their performance through better collaboration. They are also introduced to their games learning log which…
Top Science
This resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE), explores the subject of the scale of space in the format of a familiar game format. The activity is part of the SYCD: Science Year Is There Life? collection. The game provides students with information demonstrating the huge variety of space in a fun-to-play way. The…
Calculation Games for Students Aged 5-7
These games, published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics, can be used to practise and consolidate students' early mathematical understanding. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Three in a line - addition up to 12 • Add or subtract - addition and subtraction to 12 • Add and…
Population Growth
An activity from the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) intended for students to explore the growth of a population of rabbits or microorganisms over a fixed period time. Students explore the environmental conditions to illustrate several essential requirements for life. An extension activity introduces…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 5-7
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, number recognition and ordering. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Make a two digit number - comparing two digit numbers • Numbers in a row - using dice to generate numbers to be placed in…
Taking Risks
In this SATIS Revisited resource the activities take students through a comparison of the risks associated with different activities using data at personal, community, national and global levels. There are three activities in this unit, which have been written to be followed sequentially. Students work through a comparison of the…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, number recognition and ordering. • Aim for 500 - in this game both players roll the dice and use the numbers to make two three-digit numbers, then add them up. Whoever gets a total closest to 1500 wins the game. •…
Dinner at the Reef: Food Chains (Age 7 - 11)
Published by the ARKive Project, this fun and interactive game explores food chains in a marine environment, predator-prey relationships and the fine balance of an ecosystem. The resources include teachers notes and students activity sheets.
Data Handling Games for Students Aged 7-9
Published by BEAM, these two data handling games are from the Maths of the Month series. Three digits - a game for two players. Each player takes turns to place a counter on a number. The winner is the first player to have three counters on numbers which contain the same digit. Venn Diagram Game - a game for two players. Players…
Place Value Games for Students Aged 11-13
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of place value, rounding and ordering. • One or less - involves students choosing numbers including decimals and dividing them to try to make a number close to one or two after rounding. • Round to a whole - students score…
Small Is...Challenge
In celebration of its founder, Fritz Schumacher’s centenary year Practical Action have created Small Is...Challenge. Schumacher’s philosophy was based on the idea that even a small change can have a big impact on people’s lives. The challenge for students is to look at technologies from the last 100 years and invent…
Revision Resources
This set of resource, from the Association for Science Education (ASE) provide examples of revision activities.The resources are provided as both PDF and Word file format, so teachers may amend them for different classes and topics. • Pick a number - students choose numbers from a grid to answer quiz questions on a wide…
Data Handling Games for Students Aged 9-11
This game, published by BEAM, poses a number of questions aimed at developing students' understanding of simple probability using a set of number cards. Probably - a game for two players. The chooser chooses a card from the set of cards. The guesser has to guess whether the card id shows an odd or an even number. Game…
Incey Wincey Spider
This NRICH maths game is for two players and gives experience of moving along a number track. A more interesting version where the player has to land exactly on the end of the drain pipe to win uses two dice and allows the players to make decisions on which dice score to use. It can be a precursor to the introduction of negative…
Climate Change Card Games
From Practical Action, these colourful playing cards can be used for the basis of a range of games and fact-finding activities to help children understand climate change.
Shape Games for Students Aged 11-13
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to apply their knowledge of shape and space. The games, all taken from the Maths of the month series, and their mathematical content are: • Angle estimation game - estimating and measuring angles • Isosceles triangle game - playing against a partner…
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The Twelve Pointed Star
This maths game from NRICH offers a good context in which to explore possible outcomes and to think systematically about what scores are possible in the game. It will be important for learners to develop a recording or listing system that they are happy with in order to find all the possible ways in which the different totals can…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Shape Games for Students Aged 9-11
Published by BEAM, these games provide opportunities for students to practise and consolidate their knowledge and understanding of shape and space. The three games, with their mathematical content, are: • Angles - identifying right, acute and obtuse angles in shapes • Coordinates grid game - generating co-ordinates…
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- Publication year: 2010 to date
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Chatterboxes
BLOODHOUND SSC chatterboxes are an innovative resource that will inspire and motivate science teaching and learning in the classroom. They are an excellent way to raise standards throughout Key Stage Two and impact on students' attainments. In this fun and interactive activity, students cut and fold paper to make the chatterbox.…
Counting Games for Students Aged 3-5
A selection of games published by BEAM for teachers of early years mathematics. The games enable students to develop their skills of number recognition, counting, comparison and writing of numbers. The games, with their mathematical content, are: • Reading numbers game - matching numbers in words to numerals •…
Countdown
Countdown from Subtangent challenges the players to get as close as possible to a target number, using six numbers and the four standard operations of arithmetic before the time runs out. Players can choose how many large or small numbers they wish to use for each game. The Numbers and Letters version allows the user to choose…
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- Publication year: 2000 - 2009
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Endangered Species Bingo (Age 7-11)
Produced by ARKive, this engaging activity introduces students to the concept of endangered species and what it means when a species becomes extinct. After a class discussion about endangered species and the different endangered statuses, knowledge is reinforced by playing Endangered Species Bingo. The 'caller' has a set…
Matching Game
Matching names of shapes to their drawings is the focus of this interactive game from Subtangent. Students need to remember the position of cards which have already been revealed to complete the task as quickly as possible. This game gives an opportunity to reinforce knowledge of the properties of shapes.
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